Israeli settlers beat a 20-year-old American to loss of life whereas one other man was fatally shot throughout a violent confrontation within the occupied West Financial institution on Friday, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry and his household.
Sayfollah Musallet, a U.S. citizen from Tampa, Florida, was visiting kin within the city of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, when his household says a bunch of settlers assaulted him whereas making an attempt to grab the household’s land.
In a statement, the household stated Musallet was “brutally crushed.” Medics have been reportedly blocked from reaching him for greater than three hours, till settlers lastly cleared the realm, permitting his youthful brother to hold him to an ambulance. Musallet died earlier than reaching the hospital.
The Israeli army claims the violence broke out after Palestinians hurled rocks at Israelis and flippantly wounded two folks.
On Sunday, Musallet was laid to relaxation alongside buddy Hussein Al-Shalabi, a 23-year-old Palestinian man who was shot within the chest and killed in the identical violent incident.
Musallet’s household remembered him as “a form, hard-working, and deeply-respected younger man” who was identified for “his generosity, ambition, and connection to his Palestinian heritage.”
They known as his loss of life an “unimaginable nightmare and an injustice that no household ought to ever must face” and urged the U.S. State Division to analyze the incident.
A spokesperson for the State Division informed press shops it was conscious of experiences a U.S. citizen had died within the West Financial institution however declined to remark additional “out of respect” for the household.
Musallet is one in every of a number of U.S. residents who’ve been killed by Israeli army or settler violence within the occupied West Financial institution in recent times, together with a 14-year-old American who was shot by Israeli troopers in April.
On Saturday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations accused the U.S. authorities of “shielding Israel from accountability” in these circumstances.
“This was not an remoted incident,” the group said in a statement. “It was a part of an extended, unpunished sample of violence in opposition to U.S. residents by Israeli troopers and settlers.”
A United Nations report launched in March warned of a “local weather of continuous impunity,” which it stated had fueled a pointy rise in state-sanctioned settler violence throughout the West Financial institution following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, assault on Israel.
